Archival Storage Top 10 Questions

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Organizations across virtually every industry are struggling with requirements to retain corporate records for ever greater periods of time. It is not uncommon for companies to need information access for decades and where public safety or cultural heritage is a factor, records may need to be retained indefinitely.

The rapid pace of technological evolution has forced companies to take a short-term, tactical view of IT, which can clash dramatically with the growing need for a long-term archival storage strategy. Products and processes used to solve short-term storage requirements are often inappropriate for long-term archival storage.

This questionnaire is designed to raise some of the issues most critical to building and maintaining a secure data archive. The following pages provide additional background information and summarise the role UDO plays relative to each question.

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